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Patented May 30, |899.

(Application ledleb. 20, 1899.)

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UNITED STATES,

PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES B. JONES, OF NEV HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR OF' ONE- HALF TOFREDERICK L. COWLES, OF SAME PLACE.

RECLlNlNG-PERAMBULATOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters -Patent No. 626,025, dated May 30,1899.

Application filed February 20, 1899'. Serial No. 706,233. (No model.)

To all whom it mag/cowern Beit known that I, CHARLES B. JONES, a citizenof the United States, residing at New Haven, county of New Haven, Stateof Connecticut, have invented a new and useful RecliningzPerambulator,(Case A,) of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to the construction of adjustable chair-supports,preferably of the wheeled variety, for the accommodation particularly ofchildren; and the said invention has for its object to provide means forelevating the foot or leg rest simultaneously with the rearwardadjustment of the backrest and to means for automatically locking theparts in the latter position.

A further object of this invention is the production of a device'of thischaracter in which the foot or leg rest when projected to horizontalposition shall be absolutely immovable from that position by anyaccidental means, thus preventing any possibility of a child fallingfrom the vehicle if it should rest upon said forwardly-projectingportion;v and a further object of the invention is to provide aconstruction wherebythe application of a very slight upward pressureupon the upper end of the back-rest will serve to unlock the foot or legrest from its horizontal position and permit it to drop to a vertical ornearly vertical position.

To these ends the invention consists in the construction and combinationof parts substantially as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 represents a side elevation ofone embodiment of my invention, the parts being in their positions forthe occupant of the vehicle to sit upright therein. It is to beunderstood that the invention' shown as applied in this figure could beequally well applied to supports of the chair type mounted on legs or aframe of any kind instead of on wheels. Fig. 2 is a view similar to Fig.1, but with the parts in their positions when the occupant is reclining.Fig. 3 represents an enlarged detail view of the strut-joint hereinafterdescribed. Fig. 4 represents an edge view or elevation of the saidjoint.

at 1, and attached to the side thereof is the v metal strap 2, which mayform a part of the frame of the vehicle or chair and strengthen it.Secured to the front end of the strap 2 is a bracket 3, to the lower endof which is pivoted at 4: a bell-crank or elbow lever 5.

The strap or bar 6, forming one side of the foot or leg rest, is pivotedat 7 to the front end of the strap 2 or bracket 3, and a strut 8 ispivoted at one end 9 to the bar 6 and at the other end 10 to the forwardend of the elbow-lever 5. This forward arm of the elbowlever forms, inconnection with the section 8, a jointed strut to support the foot-restin horizontal position directly from the pivot 4. One of the overlappingportions which forms this strut is provided with a lug 1l, as indicatedin Figs. 3 and 4, to engage the end of the other overlapping portion ormember to prevent the said strut from doubling up or folding downwardfrom the position shown in Fig. 2. To the other end of the elbow-lever 5is pivoted at 12 one end of a link 13, the other end of which link 13 ispivoted at 14 to the lower end of the lever 15, which in turn is pivotedat 16 to the strap'2. It is to be understood that all of these parts areduplicatedI at the other side of the chair or vehicle preferably andthat the two levers 15 form the sides of the back-rest, while the twobars 6 form the sides of the leg and foot rest.

The shape of the elbow-lever 5, as shown, is such that a number of themcan be cut from a strip of metal of the requisite width with the leastpossible waste of material, the

.die which cuts the outside margin of one elbow-lever forming at thesame time the inside margin of the next lever. The bar 6,

shown in Fig. 9, said stop preventing the strain due to the weight ofthe occupants back on said lever 15 from being communicated to thestop-lug,r 11 of the jointed strut.

I claim- 1. A device of the character specified, comprising a xed seatportion, an adjustable foot and leg rest, an adjustable back-rest, andconnections for elevating the former by the backward movement of thelatter, the said connections including an elbow-lever operativelyconnected with the back-rest and a support between said elbow-lever andthe legrest for automatically locking the leg-rest in extended position.

2. In a device of the character specified, the combination with theseat-frame,of the elbowlever pivoted to a ixed support below said frame,the bar G pivoted to said frame the strut S pivoted to the bar G and toone end of the seat-frame, the strut 8 pivoted to the bar 6 and to oneend of the elbow-lever, the lever 15, and the link 13 connecting thelower end of the lever 15 with the other end of the elbowlever.

4. In a device of the character specified, the combination with the seatframe, of the bracket 3 secured thereto, the elbow-lever 5 pivoted tosaid bracket, the bar 6 pivoted to the seat-frame, the strut 8 pivotedto the bar 6 and to one end of the elbow-lever, the lever 15, and thelink 13 connecting the lower end 01"' the lever 15 with the other end ofthe elbowlever, the member 8 and Ithe arm or member of the elbow-leverto which the member 8 is pivoted forming a jointed strut for supportingthe bar 6 in extended position, a lug being formed on one of the saidmembers and adapted to engage the other member to hold the two memberssubstantially in alinement with the bar (5 locked in extended position.

In testimony whereof I aiIix my signature `in presence of two witnesses.

CHARLES B. JONES. iVitnesses:

THOMAS T. WELLES, F. M. RUWET.

